On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:43:50PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > The whole attitude of "We don't need to stinking GUI" is fine, as long as you > keep it to yourself. if your objective is to make Linux the best operating > system for your own special needs, then everything is fine - you probably > don't use X at all.
One small note: My issues with the bloated desktops are that they are too complecated: you can't easily configure them with a "configuration editor" (text editor, or even something like regedit or gconf-editor). And their configurations will occasionally break. I rather use something simple that gives me most of what I need, but in a way I can understand. That's me, at least. > But maybe, just maybe, the point of the whole exercise is to make Linux the > best OS for everyone - and that means nice looking, _responsive_, stable > GUIs. > _stable_ :-) > Now, after deviating from the main issue for a while - here's my real point: I > don't care much for eye-candy in X. its nice to have, but less important then > getting a fast and stable graphical environment. X is blocking the way as its > so damn slow. its a CPU and Memory hog, and its design is so bad it makes it > very hard to extend its feature set to compete with other graphical > environments. Please support with evidence. I'll later try that on my P133/32MB. Can you get XP to even consider running on it? > Example: only this year the ability to change resolution w/o restart was > included into X - this feature has been available on the major competitor's > OS for about 7 years now, and still this feature is not visible to most users > as there are no stable user end tools that take advantage of it. same with > font anti-aliasing - very useful eye-candy, and people are still having > problems with it. Antialiasing is yet another example of extentions to the X protocol. Two years ago none of my programs supported it. Now almost all do. Aparently it didn't take so long. And it wasn't so visible to applications: even for gtk programs gtk-xft immdiatly surfaced (with an added twist of being an LD_PRELOAD-ded library, so you didn't even have to rebuild anything) When will OSX aquire the ability to display windows from a different computer? (not a whole desktop)? X-Windows has had that for almost 20 years. Don't we live in a networked environment? What about XP? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
